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Movies

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the answer.)

Animation
Released in 1937, the world's first feature-length animated film
was entitled ...

Blockbusters
Who directed "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind," "E.T.," and "Saving
Private Ryan"?

Legendary Lines
The command to "Round up the usual suspects" comes
from the last scene of what movie?
A. High Noon
B. Casablanca
C. North by Northwest
D. The Thirty-Nine Steps
E. Murder on the Orient Express

Movie Tunes
The "Sunrise" section of Richard Strauss' "Also
Sprach Zarathustra" was used in what 1968 science fiction
movie?

Movie Lingo
What is the meaning for these abbreviations that are used in
the movie industry?

SP-EFX
SP-FX
SFX
FX

The First Flick
Thomas Edison produced what is regarded as the first motion picture.
It was a story about a ...
A. train robbery
B. maritime disaster
C. flirtatious woman
D. Grimm's fairy tale
E. Revolutionary War battle

Exciting Episodes
What compound word relating to a steep precipice describes a
movie serial that ends each episode with a suspenseful scene
designed to entice viewers to return for the next installment?

Why We Fight
The Plow that Broke the Plains
A Brief History of Time
The Thin Blue Line
Hoop Dreams

Foreign Language Films
While watching TV in Rome, you come across a version of "Men
in Black" in which Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith appear
to be speaking Italian. This practice of inserting new, synchronized
speech over the original dialogue is called ...

Film Genres
Movie critics use the phrase "film noir" in relation
to "The Big Sleep," "Chinatown," and ...
A. Cleopatra
B. Mary Poppins
C. Driving Miss Daisy
D. The Maltese Falcon
E. The Remains of the Day

Flick Finales
At the end of every movie, you see a list of all of the people
who had some responsibility in the production of the film. Name
this list.